New York: Hacker Art Books, 1972. Quarto; publisher's blue-grey cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt; lxiii,[1],335pp.; chiefly photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, stock very slightly toned, discreet ex libris to front pastedown, else Near Fine. First published in 1912. More
Birmingham: W.J. Cosby / Universal Press, 1893. Re-issue of the 1822 Triphook and Rodd Edition, limited to 600 copies (one of 500 on antique paper). Octavo (9" x 6.35"); xix, 213p +5p "Passages Suppressed" addendum. Rebound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. in dark green leather with blindstamped branch decoration..... More
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New York: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First thus. Octavo. 319 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Koestler's first book, originally published in 1939, is the story of Spartacus and the slave revolt of 73-71 BCE. First in Koestler's political trilogy of idealism gone wrong, along..... More
London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852. First English-Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (23cm.); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines; frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Extremities scuffed and corners bumped with brief exposure, all three volumes quite crudely recased, text blocks exceedingly brittle with preliminaries starting to separate or entirely..... More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Prinetd dust jacket with Rs 10.00 price inact. Beige boards with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges and toned at spine and edges. Boards are heavily foxed, and lightly worn at edges..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell / Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1991. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,306pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, faint soiling to upper jacket panel, else Very Good and sound. Collection of academic papers and historical..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Entirely in Chinese. Traditional Chinese fukurotoji stab-binding, with the bound spine on the right edge and the pages folded at the outer edge. Wraps of limp textured teal paper..... More
Oxford, UK: Oxford / Clarendon Press, 1884. Square octavo. 95 pp. + 6 tables, complete. Printed olive paper wraps. Covers spotted and rubbed with chipping to edges and spine, with loss to spine ends. Front cover cleanly separated along spine edge, but binding otherwise secure. Personal library stamp of..... More
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911. First U.S. Edition. Two large octavo volumes. 384 pp.; 420 pp. Mounted color frontispiece to each volume, with tissue guards; numerous black and white maps and illustrations, all present and complete. Dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. Dark topstains. Lacks dust jackets... More
Paris: Le Normant, 1814. Seconde Édition, revue et corrigée. Thick octavo; full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt-ruled spine with red onlay, pale blue laid endpapers; [2],lvi,919pp. Binding rather scuffed, leather cracked along spine edges, contemporary ownership inscription with old remnants of wax seal to front and rear endpapers, very occasional marginalia..... More
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Stated First Impression of First Edition of this Chicago/Baskin production. Octavo (28.5x20x5cm); 526pp, including glossary. Forty-nine full-page drawings by Leonard Baskin. Baskin-illustrated image on off-white jacket. Volume bound (handsomely) in claret-plum linen; Baskin drawing pasted on front panel; gilt spine stamping. Text on heavy..... More
Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Bryant Foundation, 1970. Fifth printing. Slim octavo. 31-57 pp, with pagination beginning on 31, as indicated in table of contents. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Edgewear to wraps with staining and discoloration to front and rear. Chip..... More
Paris: Guy le Prat, n.d., ca. 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's limp tan boards printed in brown; [2],110pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A bit of toning to boards and textblock, bump to top edge of rear cover, small chip to top fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good..... More
Genevæ: Sumptibus & Typis Samuelis Chouët, 1659. Editio novissima prioribus accuratior & emendatior. Quarto (25.5cm.); full contemporary sheep, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; mixed pagination (collated thus: ¶4 A-N8 O4 P1 2A-3G8 2A-2T8 2V7 3A-3Y8 3Z3 A-M8 N4); added engraved title page, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 339 pages. 4 fold-out maps to rear. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Green cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Moderate wear to boards; cracked at bottom corners and spine ends. Cracked at hinge but binding is sound..... More
![Orazioni Scelte di M.T. Cicerone [Biblioteca Universale di Scelta Letteratura Antica e Moderna]....](/pictures/thumb/8244.jpg?v=1614363664)
Milano: Nicolò Bettoni, 1828. Two volumes in one; 24mo (12.5cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spine, all edges speckled; 163, 141pp. Light wear to spine edges with tiny chips at crown, small early 20th-century private library spine label, faint foxing to preliminaries, else a Very Good, internally fresh copy..... More
Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly..... More
Paris: Adrian Perier, 1606. Two volumes in one; thick quarto (23.5cm.); contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; [18],757,[29]; [8],643,[11]pp. (collated and complete); woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Leather dried and scuffed at extremities, joints cracked and chipped but still holding, losses at spine ends leaving headband..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [6],378pp. General minor edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities, most notably shallow chipping along top margin of rear flap, spine very slightly cocked, light dust-soil, discreet ownership inscription to half title, else Very..... More
New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition, first state with "least" lacking from page 99. Tall octavo. 107 pp. Printed dust jacket with original $2.50 price present. Red-orange and black boards stamped in copper. Black topstain. Dust jacket lightly chipped and toned along edges with toning to spine..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5x20x6.5cm); xlix + 918pp, including three bibliographies; index; romanization table; and chronology. Illustrated with 172 photographs (largely in color), maps, and reproductions of scroll- and line-drawings; 158 scientific charts and tables. Very Good. Dust jacket reproduces Taoist genii from a painted temple..... More